Emile Bluteau Brown Duck Canadian Folk Art Sculpture color study Just wonderful

Just wonderful

while the neck and lower half are painted a very pale blue

though I will take their description of it as a German penny toy dating to the 1910s-20s

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Emile Bluteau Brown Duck Canadian Folk Art Sculpture color study Just wonderfulI really really love the matter of factness of this duck; no more than what it needs to be and seemingly perfectly suited to go for a float and I find that flat expanse of chocolate brown paint weirdly but truly satisfying. It's the work of Emile Bluteau (1931 ?), a well known Quebecois folk artist, who began carving in the late 70s, first birds and then"the human condition in all its moods and shapes" as described by Lyle Elder, a great documenter of